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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there's simply no coastlines to catch any plastic. So we built our own artificial coastline.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It's out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that's good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there's simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use a curtain, so we don't use a net, so there's nothing sea life can get entangled with. And also, the system moves very slowly. It moves around 4 inches per second on average. So really, the chances of sea life being harmed by this are very minimal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get seasick quite badly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst is yet to come, because all the plastic that is already out there is going to become more hazardous if we don't clean it up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.
- Plastic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.
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- Nov 07, 2020
This plastic doesn't go away by itself, and to just let hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic be out there to be fragmented into these small and dangerous microplastics to me seems like an unacceptable scenario.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020